There's no place like home: Bernie Nolan shows off her new bleached blonde hair as she brings Calendar Girls to Dublin

She's been touring round the country with the current production of hit musical Calendar Girls - but Bernie Nolan is finally back on home turf.

The 50-year-old - who was recently given the all-clear after being diagnosed with breast cancer last year - joined her co-stars at the Canal Theatre in Dublin for cast photos ahead of their first performance in the Irish capital on February 8.

And after her hair started growing back again, she showed off her new blonde style as she joined her co-stars for a promotional shot.

Back to blonde: Bernie Nolan shows off her new blonde hair after losing it during chemotherapy treatment last year

Irish welcome: Bernie joined other cast members including Jennifer Ellison, Danielle Lineker and Lisa Riley as the production arrived in Dublin

And she was looking even fitter than ever as she posed with fellow cast
members including Jennifer Ellison, Danielle Lineker, Lisa Riley and
Lynda Bellingham - all wearing white bathrobes to protect their modesty.

Other cast members in the touring production include Ruth Madoc, Gwen Taylor, Trudie Goodwin and Diana Morgan, as well as Bruno Langley.

The production marks Bernie's return to work after she underwent a gruelling mastectomy, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, when she was diagnosed with the disease last April.

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'Popstar to Operastar – I got to the
final, I couldn’t believe it. And then boom! It just shows you that in
life you never know what’s around the corner.'

She also revealed
that her hair, which fell out during treatment, had started to grow back
and that she had bleached her new short crop blonde.

All smiles: Bernie was looking healthy as she posed for photos with co-star Jennifer Ellison

'I’ll decide when I go grey,' she said on the show. 'It’s like
when I said I’ll decide when I go bald, I’m not ready to go grey yet.
Somebody said, "It looks distinguished", I said "God, I don’t want to be
distinguished yet."'

Bernie took matters into her own hands
and shaved her head when clumps started falling out during her cancer
treatment, saying at the time: 'I thought, "Get rid of it - I'm in
charge of this disease, it's not in charge of me."'

And that's not the only thing she reveals in the show. 'I’m baring
all!' she said of the role, which requires her to appear nude on stage.
'Well, you
know, I play the piano in it, so I’ve my back to the audience which is
my best view really.

All girls together: Bernie with her co-stars Lynda Bellingham, Danielle Lineker and Ellison

'And then we turn around a little bit at
the end, but of course that’s where my scars are you see. And so I
thought to myself, obviously as a woman I first thought to myself,
"eek".

'But then I thought, hang on, this is another great thing
to do because anybody who’s got scars – it’s saying, so what? Scars,
schmars, as I say, it’s okay. And they are brilliant scars, they’re
amazing, I’m so proud of them because they’re so little and neat.'

Here comes the boy: Male co-star Bruno Langley also joined the 'chorus line' of female cast members